SANDY'S CORNER

Wanganui Chronicle, 6 November 1950, Page 4

SANDY'S CORNER

Would it be a grammatical error to say that Paddy Joe failed to “calibrate’ to first position in the New Zealand Cup? Anyway, we know that Calibrate had something to do with what happened. Now it’s boots and all on Bhutan and all in the Melbourne flutter. BAD WRITING It is reported that chemists are agitating for doctors to improve their handwriting. We have a lot of sympathy for the doctors. Our handwriting is atrociously bad. But all bad writers can be . omtorted by a story that comes from London. It is reported that a patient there used a prescription for two years as a railway pass. Twice it got him into the Albert Hall and once into the Royal enclosure at Ascot. All that is as good as the story that a paint brush was attached to a donkey’s tail, and the tail was allowed to swish back and forth on some «anvas and the outcome was a masterpiece. One day we expect a piece of our bad writing to achieve something just as wonderful! At the moment all it begets is anger vented by those who have to road it. So few people have a chemical mind. SCOTIA’S LAMENT! Scotland is seeking home rule! It is not doing that, to ape Ireland, but, judging by what we can road, that Scotland has no national game. England has its cricket, the United States its baseball, New Zealand has a choice between horse racing and Rugby football. What has Scotland? There is a lament there at present that Scotland’s national “games” were subdued by undue Saxon influence—the Campbels versus the Macdonalds, home and away: the McGregors versus anybody at all, whether home or away. We think it is nigh time Scotians had its own rule, so tnat it can get back its national game. Now then Lachie. Don't bo kidding yourself. We know what you are thinking. That if Scotland docs get home rule all people will he to-bidden to eat porridge with sugar and will be made to take it with salt!